Pack Up Your Troubles

Maeve Brannigan is only eighteen when she leaves her rural home in County Donegal and moves to Birmingham, where she falls in love with handsome Brendan Hogan. But married life isnt as idyllic as shed imagined. Saddled with a violent husband and with two younguns needing her protection, Maeve bears her life as best she can. She flees back to Ireland but her presence is greeted with open hostility by the close- knit catholic community.